LDF’s Deuel Ross in CityLab: ID Laws Disenfranchise Voters in Wake of a Hurricane

Transportation is another hurdle, especially in Texas, where the nearest ID office for people in rural areas can be up to 170 miles away. As Harvey tears up infrastructure and floods major highways, it will be even harder ...

LDF’s Kyle Barry: It’s Time for Senators Against White Supremacy to Match Rhetoric to Votes on Nominees

In tweets and statements, Senate Republicans have emphatically distanced themselves from President Trump’s morally bankrupt response to the violent white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville. When Trump blamed “both sides” and said that “many fine people” were ...

Janai Nelson Discusses Ending the Influence of White Supremacy in Public Policy in the Huffington Post

If You Want To Fight White Supremacy, Condemning Neo-Nazis Is Not Enough HuffPost spoke with Janai Nelson, associate director-counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, about what it means to stand up to white ...

Natasha Merle Discusses LDF’s Lawsuit Against Trump’s Voter Suppression Commission on The Breach

The Breach: Fighting Trump’s Efforts to Suppress the Vote Natasha Merle joins Rewire host Lindsay Beyerstein to discuss how false allegations of voter fraud are being used to suppress the votes of communities of color. ...

Sherrilyn Ifill on Face the Nation: Congress Has to Deal With Reality of White Supremacy In Their Policies

Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Christian Picciolini, Founder of Life After Hate, and Elle Reeve, VICE News joined Face the Nation to discuss the white supremacist violence ...

LDF’s Sam Spital in Op-Ed for Salon: There’s Never Been “Many Sides” to American Racial Terror

There’s Never Been “Many Sides” to American Racial Terror President Trump’s assertion that “both sides” are responsible for the racial hatred and violence in Charlottesville is false. The white supremacists that gathered on Saturday proudly flaunted their ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Says Congress Should Take Real Action on The Rachel Maddow Show

Trump race crisis a test for Congress to take real action Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Congress can do more than the bare minimum of ...

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